installing-homebrew-for-OSX

A little less than a year ago, I started managing open source packages
on my OS X laptops using Homebrew.
Since then, I've completely stopped using Fink and macports and
happiness has ensued. If you are looking for a package manager for
OSX, Homebrew is what you want.

Way back when, I
posted
on how I installed Homebrew, and those instructions are a bit out of
date. So for those interested, here's a quick way to bootstrap a new
OS X system for Homebrew and git goodness.

# update homebrew to latest set of "formula"
brew update
# show which installed packages are out of date
brew outdated

There are now a number of brew extensions that provide additional
functionality and serve as examples of how to bend brew to your
will. Take a look at /usr/local/Library/Contributions/examples to
see what's available (files in this directory with a name like
brew-BAR.rb can be invoked using brew BAR.